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How many times is this gonna be posted? It’s basically spam at this point. Don’t use proprietary solutions to already-freely-solved problems

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They have VC funding and a big PR team... They're probably going to win by paying big companies like Facebook to promote what3words usage with the public.

What free solution is there that does this?

Oh, this is free-as-in-beer all right (at the time of writing). Free-as-in-speech would be, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Location_Code

Or even the venerable Maidenhead Locator, even though it's not well specified for high location precision.

Thanks, Open Location Code looks like a great solution.

https://plus.codes/6PJ4CWRW+H3 for anyone who wants to play around with it.

Although I must say that '6PJ4CWRW+H3' is still harder to communicate than horse.cow.sheep for example. That is the clever thing about what3words, the design of the addresses. What I like about Open Location Code is that adjacent squares have a similar name.

Well, I like how the code can be shorter when using a location (I see "CWRW+H3 Segamat District, Johor, Malaysia") or unambiguous and terse when using the full code ("6PJ4CWRW+H3").

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